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Colored person   /kˈələrd pˈərsən/   Listen
Colored person

noun
1.
A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive.  Synonym: colored.






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"Colored person" Quotes from Famous Books



... would be unintelligible to our foreign philosopher, but American citizens know very well what it means. Through this fine lattice-work fence they discern the shining countenance of the colored person. ...
— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

... of a conscience taking fire. The fire slumbered until a few weeks before Lundy entered Boston, when there were again the glow and glare of a moral sense in the first stages of ignition on the enormity of slave institutions. The act of South Carolina in making it illegal to teach a colored person to read and write struck this spark from his pen: "There is something unspeakably pitiable and alarming," he writes in the Philanthropist, "in the state of that society where it is deemed necessary, for self-preservation, ...
— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke



Words linked to "Colored person" :   colored, black, Black person, negro, archaicism, blackamoor, archaism, negroid



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